ChainsawAsh

LordZerome1080 said:

How long did it take for 2.0 and 2.5/7 of the DEED to be released? Reason I’m asking is because I want to create an estimate for how long the wait for 3.0 will be.

Please don’t turn into [several now-banned usernames redacted]. They’ll be done when they’re done, just like all fan projects where the creator(s) deliberately chose not to give timeframe estimates or target dates.

Zachary VIII said:

That TIE Interceptor with two triangular wings bugs me. It looks cool, but it has even less visibility than the standard TIE fighter which already has bad visibility.

Agree with this, too.

nl0428 said:

ChainsawAsh said:

What makes you think anything in this poster is a “scrapped idea?”

C-3PO with Chewbacca’s bandolier and bowcaster seems like an idea that was floating around during the concept art/pre-production stages of the film before it would be dropped. It doesn’t seem like an idea that Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy and J.J. Abrams would not want to make use of.

Too bad. They are. I don’t like the idea either, but this is far beyond concept art. The best case scenario here is it’s one scene that ends up getting cut before December, but if they’re putting it on licensed art, it’s almost certainly going to be in the movie.

While there was concept art of Kylo Ren with a repaired helmet on that got leaked even earlier, it is also likely that that idea was dropped as well.

No, it’s not likely at all. I’d say the idea being brought up time and time again along with concept and licensed promo art depicting exactly this is a 100% guarantee that this is exactly what is happening in the movie.

I have already explained why Kylo Ren would not wear his helmet again, and why the crew have now gone into the direction.

Again, I’m not the biggest fan of the idea either, but sticking your fingers in your ears and going “LALALALALA THEY’RE NOT DOING THIS” is just straight up denial and will hurt any chance you have at enjoying the movie. Accept that it’s at minimum likely to happen and you’ll have a better time, even if you still end up disliking the idea.

The idea that this is “sketched-out concept art” of that it contains any “scrapped ideas” is straight-up denial, as this is far beyond those stages. This is near-finalized to the point where I’d be surprised if this exact poster isn’t for sale at Celebration.

What makes you think anything in this poster is a “scrapped idea?”

OutboundFlight said:

I do not believe the poster is real. It looks awful. Threepio with a gun? Meme alien face? Horrible backdrop? No thank you please.

Oh no, it’s 100% real, but this is definitely more of a Walmart promo poster than anything else. It’s absolutely not a theatrical one-sheet or anything like that.

JEDIT: Like this one for TFA (though it’s significantly better than the leaked IX one):

I loathe the idea of Threepio using a firearm. AOTC flashbacks.

Where’s Rose and Leia?

RDPlissken said:

APRIL 25th

Auto detection? Huh? That’s not a thing here.

And a link to an audio track isn’t the same as a full movie since you need a copy of the movie itself to do anything with it, though I’ll admit that I’m a little surprised the mods have left that link up.

Tobar said:

MalàStrana said:

The issue is not about being logical or not, the real trick is: this piece of information of the DS being sabotaged by its own engineer is a rationalization of something magical/Force related in ANH, and it was totally unecessary. That’s why I compare that to the midichlorians: going for magic to something… logical, mathematical, biological, rational… it goes 100% against the spirit of the OT and particularly of ANH.

When I get some more time I intend to come back and address Shopping’s main post but for now I’ll just address this.

Nothing in Rogue One contradicts Luke’s achievement in SW.

The struggle in Star Wars is trying to land a direct hit down the thermal exhaust port to set off a chain reaction. Something that all the other pilots proclaim is next to impossible.

That weakness in the design whether it was intentional or not has no bearing on the inherit difficulty of exploiting it.

Thank you.

That exact interview has been discussed on this site ad nauseum for two years now. She’s not saying anything about the original versions. She’s saying they won’t make any more changes to the first six films because that’s the way he worded his question. That’s all.

I’m not saying we will ever get official unaltered original releases (that seems very unlikely in the near future, if at all), but that interview is not evidence of that in any way.

This fucking interview again?

That’s not what she said. He asked the question in a weird way and she interpreted it (after several attempts at answering something completely different) as him asking if they were going to further alter the SE’s, which they’re not.

Ah, okay, that makes sense.

Looking through the thread I linked, it seems like there may have been some picture differences here and there that didn’t affect run time or audio at all (bacta scene is edited differently, some optical wipes ended up as straight cuts in the 35mm, there are straight cuts instead of dissolves in the Luke/Vader telepathy scene, and the missing Falcon radar dish under Cloud City), and then the final scene as described, plus a couple different sound effects here and there.

crissrudd4554 said:

ChainsawAsh said:

Fang Zei said:

Anyway, what’s so special about the 70mm ESB? Didn’t ANH also have picture and sound differences between the 35mm and 70mm versions?

Sound, yes, picture, no. ESB is the only one to have visual/editing differences between 70mm and 35mm, which was just down to a few VFX shots in the final scene being unfinished when the 70mm prints were struck IIRC.

I seem to recall reading there were also slightly different scene transitions between the two. Some of the audio changes were carried over to the SE. ‘It’ll keep you warm until I get the shelter up’ ‘You were lucky to get out of there’ etc.

In theater audio recordings of 70mm ESB screenings have proven the “SE carryover” dialogue differences wrong (and proven the final scene differences correct). Here’s a thread about it.

msycamore said:

Fantastic to finally be able to hear how close it really was to the regular 35mm Dolby Stereo in terms of content, whining snowspeeder, shelter built, the same “the first transport is away”, you’re lucky you don’t taste very good, I know where luke is etc. are all in the 70mm as well. Even the few extra lines and alternates heard here and there in the '97SE that many have claimed to be 70mm dialogue are not present.

Haven’t listened to it from beginning to end yet, but the quality of the recording wasn’t bad at all. What a damn fine job you did capturing this piece of SW-history and sharing it with us 30 years later! Simply amazing!

Ooh, looking very nice!

Fang Zei said:

Anyway, what’s so special about the 70mm ESB? Didn’t ANH also have picture and sound differences between the 35mm and 70mm versions?

Sound, yes, picture, no. ESB is the only one to have visual/editing differences between 70mm and 35mm, which was just down to a few VFX shots in the final scene being unfinished when the 70mm prints were struck IIRC.

I doubt we’ll ever get an official release of the 2005 ROTS. It’s just too close to identical to the BR release.

For AOTC, the 35mm version would be a possibility, as would the IMAX cut, but I doubt they’d make a distinction between the DLP and DVD/BR versions.

Then there’s the question of TPM and the OT’s “middle children” (2001 TPM with extended scenes and CPY; OT 97 and 2004), which are possible, too.

It’s more likely IMO that we’ll get the original theatrical cuts sans ROTS (77, 80, 83, 99, 02 [35mm]), and the “final” cuts of all of them alongside (2011 BR versions), with all the middle versions omitted. With the IMAX AOTC possibly thrown in for good measure.

SilverWook said:

I meant the original source for the mono track currently being used by current projects.

So Belbucus’ restoration isn’t being used anymore? Huh. Didn’t realize that.

I thought the original source for Belbucus’ restoration was a VHS recording from a TV broadcast in the early 80s?

darklordoftech said:

As for sound mixes, I’d love to hear the mono mix of ANH.

It’s included with Despecialized and 4K77. If it weren’t for the Dirty Harry .44 magnum SFX in the chasm shootout it would be my preferred mix of ANH.

I remember people saying something about checking or unchecking a box about inserting SEI value or something like that. But like I said, that didn’t work for me when I tried it and I got sick of making coasters.

Good luck!

Direct links aren’t allowed on the forum, you’ll want to delete it before a mod intervenes. Just tell people to send you a private message for the link.

I can tell you exactly why for Revisited:

It’s not 1280x720 or 1920x1080. That is, the letterboxing is cropped off, but Blu-Ray format requires a full 1920x1080 or 1280x720 frame size, so black bars are necessary.

In other words, you can’t burn ESB:R to disc without reencoding.

As for Hal’s edits, even the full 1920x1080 versions don’t play nice with BD format and never have. I gave up trying a long time ago. Something to do with Hal making them on a Mac - there are a couple solutions that have worked for some people, but I’ve never been successful.

That’s relevant to this thread how exactly?

Sorry you’re going through a rough time, snooker. Feel free to PM me if you ever need someone to talk to one on one.

Now that’s the way it should have been in 1997! Excellent work, Hal!